FIVE POINTS SOUTH: Poems from an Alabama Pilgrimage
Language: English
Published by Kelsay Books, 2023
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- Title
- FIVE POINTS SOUTH: Poems from an Alabama Pilgrimage
- Author
- Nelson, Nancy Owen
- Publisher
- Kelsay Books
- Publication year
- 2023
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1639802487
- ISBN 13
- 9781639802487
—Dr. Kalvin DaRonne Harvell, Coordinator of Black Male & QUEENS Focus Group, Founder & Chair of the Black Male Retention & Success, and the Excellence of the Black Woman Conferences (Henry Ford College), & Diversity Scholar—National Center for Institutional Diversity (University of Michigan)
The exile’s return to the South, going back in time by way of going back to place, is an established trope, a journey we know how to take. The trees get greener, the air thicker, the cadences slower, and memories crowd around, demanding attention. Nancy Owen Nelson’s account of a road trip through the Alabama of her youth, and of her family’s history, is a deeply introspective addition to this literature. Nelson asks the hard questions of herself, and of her earlier selves: who was she and why did she make the decisions she did? How did her own whiteness function in a segregated Alabama? What does she owe history? With images carved from long knowledge of the state, and searching language that pulls us forward into confrontations with personal and cultural history, these poems lodge in the psyche, refusing to be forgotten.
—Jennifer Horne, Former Alabama Poet Laureate, author of Bottle Tree, Little Wanderer, and Borrowed Light
The last word of Nancy Owen Nelson’s Five Points South is “home,” a hard-earned keynote in an intense, sometimes dissonant probing of where she is from. Poems tracing a two-week journey from Alabama’s southern border to its northern limit and beyond are in fact a plunge into the poet’s and the region’s past—food, family, college, slavery, Jim Crow segregation, the Civil War, childhood innocence, broken marriages and love affairs. The poems are direct, gritty, nuanced, persistent, making a dark and celebratory music of connections too deep to ignore. Attentive readers will find in these accessible and richly detailed poems a mirror of their own struggles to define what kind of place they call home.
—Harry Moore, author of Bearing the Farm Away and Broken and Blended: Love’s Alchemy
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